Tape-needle.



No. 696,|85. Patented Mar. 25, I902, E. B. NOYES. Y

TAPE NEEDLE.

(Application filed Aug. 5, 1901 (No Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

nois, have invented a certain new and useful UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

EMMA B. NOYES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TAPE-NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,185, dated. March25, 1902.

Application filed August 5 1901.

Be it known that I, EMMA B. NOYES, a resident of Chicago, county ofCook, State of Illi- Improvement in Ribbon-Needles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to 'needles especially adapted for threading tape,ribbon, or the like through fabrics, and has for its object theprovision of a needle so formed as to prevent the ribbon, tape, or thelike from being pulled out of its eye and to provide a needle ofthischaracter free from projections or features which would tend to renderit more or less difficult to drawthe needle through openings in cloth orfabric, it being also an object of my invention to provide a needle ofsuch form as to permit the tape or ribbon to be drawn fiatwise throughthe cloth or fabric.

To the foregoing and other useful ends the needle can be made of anysuitable material as, for example, sheet metal-it being preferable toemploy metal which will not readily bend. The needle. thus made of fiator sheet metal can be provided with a plurality of eyes for the ribbonor tape, and in order to prevent the same from pulling out one of saideyes can be formed so as to provide a tongue. When the tape or ribbon isthreaded through the eyes of the needle, said tongue engages the sameand holds it firmly in place, the end of said tongue being preferablysharpened so as to readily pierce the ribbon, tape, or like material. Inthis way the needle is adapted for use in threading ribbon, tape, orother like fiat material through cloth or fabric and in so doing thereis no danger of the ribbon ortape being pulled away from the needle.Furthermore, with the provision of a tongue for engaging and holding theribbon or tape there are no projections or other features on the needlewhich would tend to make it difficult to draw the latter through thecloth or fabric. Furthermore, the formation of the needle is such thatwhen the tape or ribbon isapplied the same does not pucker or foldlengthwise, but remains fiat and in condition to be drawn flatwisethrough the openings in the cloth or fabric.

The nature and advantages of my invention will, however, hereinaftermore fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a $erial No. 70,900. (Nomodel.)

plan of a ribbon-needle involving the principles of my invent-ion. Fig.2 is a section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig.1, with the exception that in this case a ribbon is shown threadedthrough the eyes of the needle. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 in Fig.3. Figs. 5 and 6 illustrate needles with tongues of different forms. 1

As thus illustrated,the needle A may, as previously stated, be of anysuitable material, but preferably of thin sheet metal, and it beingdesirable that the metal be one which will not readily bend. The needleshown is tapering in form and is provided with a rounded or bluntedpoint. The opposite end of the needle is preferably provided with aplurality of transverse eyes, whereof at least one is of such form as toprovide a tongue for engaging and holding the ribbon. In the drawingsthe needle is provided at its broadened end with a transverse eye ct andalso with an adjacent transverse eye a, which latter is in this casevV-shaped in form, the point of the V pointing toward the rounded orblunted point of the needle. In effect this V-shaped eye 0. provides atongue a which also points toward the rounded or blunted point of theneedle. The end of this tongue is preferably sharpened to enable it topierce the ribbon. In use the ribbon is threaded through the eyes a anda in the manner shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Thus applied to the needle theribbon is pierced, or at least engaged, by the pointed end of the tonguea In this way the said tongue prevents the ribbon from being drawn fromthe needle-that is to say, it prevents the ribbon, tape, or other likematerial from accidentally slipping through the eyes of the needle. Itwill be readily understood, however, that should it be desired theribbon can be readily removed from the nee dle by drawing the endportion 17 of the ribbon toward the point of the needle to an extent todisengage the ribbon from the pointed tongue. The needle thus formed andconstructed is adapted for use in threading ribbon, tape, or likematerial through cloth or fabric, and it will be seen that when thusused the tongue a effectively prevents the needle from accidentallybeing pulled away from the ribbon. It will also be seen that the needleis free from all projections or features which would tend to in any waymake it difficult to draw the needle through cloth or fabric. Thetransverse or slot-like eye a and the V-shaped eye a are, asillustrated, arranged close together at the head of the needle, andthese two eyes, or at least the transverse eye a, are of the same widthas thetape or ribbon, thereby permitting the application of the ribbonto the needle without puckering or folding lengthwise. In other words,the head of the needle is so formed as to hold the tape or ribbonperfectly flat and smooth and in condition to be drawn fiatwise throughthe openings in the cloth or fabric. The eye a is, as previously stated,preferably V- shaped or substantially V-shaped in form, as illustratedby Figs. 1, 5, and 6. It is obvious that the form of the tongue a can bevaried without departing from the spirit of myinvention. I do not limitmyself to the precise form and construction shown and described.

hat I claim as my invention is- 1. A fiat or flattened ribbon-needleadapted to be manipulated by hand, and having its head formed with anarrow transverse slot located at the end of the needle, and having alsoan eye located between said slot and the point or end of the needlewhich is inserted through the cloth or fabric, said eye being arrangedadjacent to said transverse slot and having a spur or point extending inthe direction of said point or end of the needle which is insertedthrough the cloth or fabric, said spur or point being adapted to engageor pierce the ribbon at the point where the latter is folded or doubledback, and the said narrow transverse slot being adapted to hold theribbon fiat and prevent the same from twisting, substantially asdescribed.

2. A ribbon-needle consisting of a flat or flattened strip of metal oftapering form, the broadened head portion of the needle being providedat its extreme end with a narrow transverse slot adapted to serve as aneye for the needle, and such broadened head portion of the needle beingalso provided with an adjacent V-shaped eye having a pointed tongueadapted to engage and hold the ribbon, the narrow transverse slot or eyeat the extreme end of the head portion of the needle extendingsubstantially across the needle head, whereby the ribbon can besubstantially of the same width as the needle, and also whereby theribbon is held fiat and prevented from rolling or folding up,substantially as described.

EMMA B. NOYES.

Witnesses:

M. PAUL Novns, ARTHUR F. DURAND.

